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It’s a family affair

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

There is as ever much to do about the personalisation of learning through technology. This takes various different forms: it can, for example revolve around content and it can focus on the benefits or not and the personal devices that learners can use to support their learning and mobility. Of course one of the [...]

The ‘Ogy’ problem

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Like many of you I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about how best we might use technology to support learning. In particular of late I have returned to the thorny issue of trying to understand the role of technology with respect to theories of learning and wish to make an observation and [...]

Jam tomorrow?

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

It’s a sad day when the BBC Trust because of “allegations from some in the industry that Jam is damaging their interests” suspends a service that has received such a large investment.
What about the learners, teachers and parents?
There may not have been universal praise about the offerings available from BBC Jam, but at least it [...]

Are we feel-good homeopaths or rigorous medics – do we have the evidence?

Monday, February 26th, 2007

As part of a very enjoyable visit to the Brighton Science festival last weekend I went to a delightful talk by Ben Goldacre who writes the Bad Science column for the Guardian. You too can hear his talk on the website. As part of the talk [...]